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A water tap.
Residents of Coronationville in Johannesburg are threatening to take Joburg Water to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) over their water supply challenges. Water has yet to be restored in the area for over two weeks after it was shut down. However, water tankers have been dispatched to the area.
The community held a series of protests in the past two weeks in an attempt to draw attention to their plight.
A 60-year-old Coronationville resident, Desiree Jones, feels that she is being denied her human right to water.
She and her community want to take their plight to the door of the Human Rights Commission.
“I just feel that our basic human rights have been violated in a sense that we do not have any water. We have no water to flush our toilets and it is so embarrassing, one can barely take a proper bath. I think the whole Johannesburg water board should be taken to the Human Rights Commission because we are really suffering.”
VIDEO | Water struggles continues in Coronationville:
